• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Getting millions of Americans to go out and essentially shout “F U Donald” is a little bit more than a hang. And is potentially much more effective than a riot or occupy wall street.

    America is still a democracy, in that all the roads to power require you to get folk to show up and vote for you.

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        That is exactly why the midterms will be so important, not to mention the next presidential election. We need to keep the momentum going for a blue wave, and this protest may have helped with that.

        The fact that No Kings was nonviolent was perfect, because trying to riot or a coup would have just enabled MAGA to justify state-sanctioned violence of their own.

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        4 个月前

        I see so many videos with people saying “I support you” and none saying “I’m going to take action.” Everyone is dawdling, nobody is doing anything

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        4 个月前

        I would argue that it already isn’t. we kinda waited a bit too long, that’s why the protests happened.

        Truth will be in the form of how they respond to the protests. If we end up with military occupation or martial law, we’re already not a democracy.

        that said, tomato, tomaaato, same fix.

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      Alright, so let’s say trump is gone, what replaces him? Business as usual republicans who were all on board with his policies but didn’t like how boisterous he was. Democrats are all too happy to play along, fellating war criminals like dick cheney and george bush. America is a representative democracy where you vote on which representative will represent billionaires for you.

      I hope these protests develop into something more, but realistically I can only anticipate them being used as political points for democrats during their donation drives to raise tons of money to promote billionaire ass-kissers. Things will continue to get worse and then the next villain of the week will appear as the conduit to do all the bad things billionaires want. We’ll be told again all we need to do is get rid of this next villain too and then things will be fine, but then the cycle repeats as things continue to just get worse.